The head of al-Qaida Osama bin Laden released a new tape where he calls on Europeans to stop supporting the U.S. in their war against Afghanistan.

More than six years after the terrorist attacks on the United States, September 11 is playing a major role in the 2008 race for the White House.

The Pentagon is disputing a claim by Russia's foreign minister that a series of written proposals on missile defense sent to Moscow last week do not match offers made verbally in October during a visit by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

For the first time in five years the United States has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions in the world's biggest polluting country fell by 1.5 per cent last year, the first decline since 2001, and only the third reduction since 1990.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticized recent U.S. proposals for a missile defense system based in Europe.

US Vice-President Dick Cheney, who has a history of heart problems, has been treated with an electric shock for an irregular heartbeat.

Minority and housing activists in the United States say unethical lending practices and consequent foreclosures are hurting minority groups disproportionately.

Russia will not abandon its plans to suspend implementation of a key European arms treaty even after of U.S. proposals for cooperation on missile defense, a leading Russian lawmaker said Friday according to ITAR-Tass news agency.

Poland will be ready to resume dialogue with the United States on the missile defense issue after consultations with NATO and neighboring states, the prime minister said on Friday.

The United States has formally made new proposals to Russia aimed at easing tension over its missile defence plans in Europe, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

A former top US commander in Iraq has thrown his support behind a war funding bill proposed by Democrats that calls for withdrawing most combat troops by the end of next year.

He was the US President's big public defender when the scandal broke over the naming of a CIA agent. Now George W Bush's former press secretary appears to be suggesting that the President knowingly misled the public over the outing of agent Valerie Plame.